thea

Be her voice on your campus

One student per campus — yours included. Four dollars an activation, your own thea free for a year, and a live page with your number.

Apply — two minutesVincent reads every application himself.

The programme

One student per campus. Cards in hand, thirty seconds, four dollars an activation — and your own thea free for a year.

thea answers the calls you miss and texts you what the caller wanted, in French or English. She launches this fall with 75 founding seats in Québec, Ontario and Atlantic Canada, most of them for students. We don't buy ads on campus; we ask one person who is already there.

What you do

You hand a card to a person and say one sentence. The card has your own QR code. That's it — residence, cafeteria, the association, between classes. Never left on a table, never in a mailbox.

What you get

$4 for every activation — a person who signs up with your card, forwards their line, and is still forwarded thirty days later — you watch each one mature on your page — paid monthly by Interac e-Transfer. Plus a founding seat, free for a year: thea on your own phone.

What it adds up to

We plan 500 cards per ambassador per month. At the rate we measured on campus this fall, that is 20 to 40 activations — $80 to $160 a month for a few hours a week. The first transfer lands a month after you start, once the first lines have held their thirty days.

Who

A student at one of the campuses below, 18 or over, who speaks the campus's language and likes talking to strangers. Two or three hours a week, September to December.

Apply

Two lines about you beat a résumé. Vincent reads every one.

Tell us more optional
Your networks optional, but it helps us picture your reach

Where people already follow you — a handle and a rough follower count. We look; we never post for you.

The sentence

“It's thea — she answers your phone when you can't and texts you what they wanted. First month free, no card, and this code is mine.”

How it works

  1. Apply above — two minutes.
  2. A fifteen-minute call with Vincent, the founder. He does every one himself.
  3. Your kit: 500 cards with your own code, the sentence, and your live page — scans, sign-ups, activations and what you've earned, updated as it happens.
  4. Every Sunday a two-line recap with your number. Every first of the month, the transfer.

Three rules

  1. Cards go hand to hand. Not on tables, not on windshields, not in mailboxes — a card nobody asked for is litter with our name on it.
  2. You never message people you don't know. No mass texts, no cold emails, no group-chat blasts. That is the law (CASL) and it is also just rude.
  3. You promise only what's on the site. If someone asks something you don't know, the answer is “ask her — thea.help.”

The fine print, plainly. An activation is a new person who signs up with your code, forwards their line, and is still forwarded thirty days later — one per person and per number, and your own lines do not count. It is paid on the first of the month after that thirtieth day. A line that is cancelled, refunded or found fraudulent does not count, and a free trial alone is not an activation: the line has to be answering for thirty days. Sign-ups show on your page from the first day and become activations on the thirtieth.

You work as an independent, not an employee; over $500 in a year we send a T4A. Your application is kept twelve months; write to thea@thea.help to remove it sooner.

thea is open. Sign up free — or hear her first: the live demo takes ninety seconds.

Sign up freeTry her now

Five minutes from now, she can be answering your phone. Open thea in your browser, confirm your number, dial one forwarding code. No app to install, no new SIM, no new number, nothing to install on your line.